Cazenovia, NY -- The developers of a $10 million medical and senior housing facility in the heart of Cazenovia have revised their project to include more parking spaces and a look that mimics the village’s historic business district.

Ed Green, Scott Shannon and architect Robert Haley first presented their plans for the 73,000-square-foot complex on Riverside Drive in December that include professional office space, up to 34 two-bedroom apartments and an underground parking garage.

But after local officials and neighbors balked at the size of the project, the team returned to the village board this week with revised plans that still incited a host of questions.

The property along Chittenango Creek is adjacent to the Cazenovia Public Library and was formerly occupied by the town’s highway garage. A joint committee of village and town officials have spent months studying how to best develop the site, in hopes of finding a developer who would address the neighborhood heritage, the utilization of natural resources, improved parking, co-existence with library and neighbors and improvement to the economy by adding to the tax base.

While the first plans were sparse in design, the second draft is more in keeping with the streetscape of the village’s historic Albany Street business district. The renderings include architectural cornices and other details similar to the creekside mill buildings of the community’s past, breaking the complex up with facades that look like separate buildings.

Green and Shannon added 40 parking spaces to the original plan’s 100 spaces, in hopes of solving some of the village’s parking problems. The plan also calls for access from Albany Street, rather than a single entrance point on Chenango Street, and a public park to connect to the local creekwalk.

As village officials review the new plans, the developers said they intend to approach property owners in the coming months to secure the necessary space for the complex. Shannon said construction was unlikely to begin before spring 2011.